PAWFULLY HAPPY ... ...

My empowerment collage this day ... pawfully happy ... OMG I found the true meaning of Dean Koontz' quote “Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” I and going to look up and order his book - A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog... My little Pierre has bought such joy and happiness to my household in just a few days that I can just imagine and anticipate our awesome joy with this little bundle of joy in the future ... This is my empowerment collage this day ... on my walk away from morbid obesity one day at a time, one choice at a time ... I feel complete now ... there is a dog in my life AGAIN YAY.... sooooooooooooo happy... There is nothing new under the sun ... I ALWAYS loved a lap dog ... Before and TODAY! 

I am soooooooooooo loving my new family addition ... my awesome toy poodle Pierre ... at 4 months old he is a bundle of joy and will the a fun part of my life post WLS journey ... OMG we spent the better part of an hour in the yard playing catch ... tirelessly he chased after me and his ball ... I love this furry exercise of motion and love.... 

I am still working on my Winter mural ... hopefully I will be finished before tomorrow....

This is my BEFORE and my TODAY .... I share snippets of my journey ... and my life ... 203 pounds lighter than before and with 5 co-morbidities in remission I am never going back .... I love my daily reminders that I track in my digital empowerment journal ... A Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away ... I can see it... I can feel it! and I am soooooooooooo loving health and mobility and feeling stronger in my mid fifties than I was in my mid twenties .... I can tear up the pavement in a 20K road race and have the energy to keep on running WOOT ... 5 years and 10 months ago I was struggling to make it up a flight of stairs .... 

This is me at my desk this morning ... compared to before WLS...

Again I sooooooooooo love this quote....

Thanks for allowing me to share .... SNIPPETS OF MY JOURNEY....

Gorgeous!  Both of you!!!

I read the book by Dean Koontz....it was awesome.  He writes about his golden retriever.  I have a yellow lab, so much of what he talks about I can easily relate to.  Worth the read, definitely.

And personally, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed boot shopping as much as I do now!

xoxoxoxoxo

I can't wait to get the book ... How awesome you have a yellow lab ... my friend has one too .... he is the most friendly yet protective dog ever and he is so good with her kids ... She bought him along to a road race were were both participating in ... he ran with us along the beach and when it was over he lay in the sand and was scooting across it as if diving under water ... it was the funniest thing ever ... 

Boot shopping ROCKS! I remember the days when the zipper won't even go up but a bit past my ankles and now I have to worry about them staying up sometimes ... can you imagine? YAY us ... and YAY to awesome boot shopping too... 

I bought doggie booties for Pierre ... he does not like to step on the grass nor on the pavement .. .he keeps trying to jump back up my leg and be picked up ... so I put the booties on him and he pulls them off and takes off running with them alternating with munching on them ... go figure LOL